2017-09-26T21:35:12ZXXYZX: History of an oasishttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/195479
XXYZX: History of an oasis
Duffield-Stoll, Anne Q.
This is the story of a very special place, an oasis in the desert known historically as Soda Springs, which many today call Zzyzx. As with any oasis, the powerful appeal of this place is the water, flowing sparkling clear and abundant. Water means life on the desert, relief from burning thirst. It means a cool drink at a shaded pool, a haven on a scorching hot day. Soda Springs is a desert oasis in this classic sense, perched on the western rim of Soda Dry Lake playa in the East Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. Looking south from the highway community of Baker on Interstate 5, the oasis of Soda Springs is just visible at the base of the Soda Mountains, a small patch of green against a stark, dry landscape of white, grey and brown.
1994-01-01T00:00:00ZJournal of a voyage to San Francisco, 1849http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/195472
Journal of a voyage to San Francisco, 1849
Jenkins, Foster H.
American Classics Facsimile Series II
1975-01-01T00:00:00ZIndia and its people: A bibliographyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/195471
India and its people: A bibliography
Perkins, David; Tanis, Norman E.; Vaish, Harish
Introduction: Until recently, American education has tended to focus its attention on Western culture and history. However, current economic and political affairs have demonstrated the increasing interdependence of countries. The development of a broadly based understanding of non-Western cultures and history is becoming increasingly important. Unfortunately, academic and public libraries serving undergraduate and high school students do not, in most cases, have the staff to make the most advantageous selection of supportive materials from the many published about Asia. It is hoped that this bibliography of approximately 2700 books about India and its peoples will be a step toward alleviating this situation. The bibliography also represents the deep and growing interest in Indian affairs at California State University, Northridge. In our view, a bibliography based on our book holdings on Indian affairs should be of value in aiding the meaningful exchange of ideas between India and America. It should assist the American student or scholar working on Indian topics as well as the Indian student or scholar contemplating exchange programs or pursuing the view of their people from an American perspective.
1980-01-01T00:00:00ZHans G. Burkhardt: Artist and patron of the artshttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/195470
Hans G. Burkhardt: Artist and patron of the arts
Kramer, William M.
Hans Burkhardt is in love with America, deeply for what it is, and even more profoundly for what it can become. In some ways he almost suppresses his Swiss origins with a speech that still reflects them. He has been a prophet without honor in Switzerland, and though he has maintained artistic friendships there, he thinks American. He is an American painter and in an artistic sense but certainly not politically, an America- Firster. "It is the American people who have given me a good life." Not only has Burkhardt, who is well represented in museums and private collections by purchase, given some of his important works to the University at Northridge and elsewhere, but he has also been a patron of the arts, buying works by fellow artists as well as by his students. It has been said of Burkhardt that more than any other man he has been responsible for bringing the concepts of modern art to the Pacific Slope. I respect that judgment, but I think his contribution to the culture of America's West will be rather that of a man who has been sensitive to all the great periods of art and joined them in the collective memory of his brush.
1982-01-01T00:00:00Z